Published by P.r.m., 1962
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
First Edition
Condition: Good. 1962. First Edition. 219 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.
Published by p.r.m. publishers ltd., London, 1962
First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this history of important boxing matches between 1939 and 1959, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper. First edition. Illustrated with seven plates. Collated complete. A detailed account of great fights and great fighters between the years of 1939 and 1959, with biographical details for each of the fighters including: Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Henry Cooper, Terry Downes, Rocky Marciano, and more. Written by Peter McInnes, a British sports writer known for his work on boxing. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light bumping to the extremities. Original price-clipped dust wrapper is sound with light chipping to the extremities and the odd small closed tear. The odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning to the endpapers. Very Good Indeed. book.
Spotlight on 'great fights and great fighters' of the years 1939-1962 1st edition. Small 8vo. 220pp. 7 plates. Very good condition in good, slighty rubbed and chipped dustwrapper.